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To: Boplicity who wrote (85092)	10/29/2000 10:55:16 AM
From: Jim Fleming	Respond to of 152472

"Sprint, meanwhile, said it is preparing an announcement for next week that will outline its shift to become more focused on data services, an area in which it already has some expertise." yahoo.cnet.com Jim

To: Boplicity who wrote (85092)	10/29/2000 12:48:01 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

What farthest stretch of imagination would make you even start to belive that Sprint would consider WCDMA? Sprint has already started 1x and will install HDR when it starts full scale rollout. I believe that the NT lic of boards and SW technology from Q is the last straw in this chain. Do you always ask "when did you stop beating your dog" type questions? They have always believed, as does MANY in the carrier community that voice and data should be separate. IS-95 allows combined voice and data into a single carrier but as yet, noone has combined it in practice. IS-95C and 1X could also do this, but again, nobody has done it. It is merely software in the basestation and handset. The chipset can do it anytime they want to implement it. The STD calls for it in IS-95. The issue of separate voice and data has long ago been beaten as a dead horse as not mattering very much. It is far more economical for a separate voice and data system for the purposes of billing, service provision, and ease of building the handsets. Sprint is 6 months away from a 1x/HDR system that will blow your socks off. Verizon as well. They have been waiting for MOT to TRY to get their infrastructure act together and get finished with foot dragging the stds until such time as they actually get close with hardware. I think that time is over now, as with the signing of the NT contract with Q, MOT stands to loose the entire biz that it had. Remember VZ (Airtouch) ripped out the entire Los Angeles system because MOT was not performing and put in NT. I think this may happen in more places IF they do not perform VERY SOON.